vernacular
ver·na·cu·lar
noun
1.
a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
- “they don”
adjective
1.
being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
- “common parlance”
- “a vernacular term”
- “vernacular speakers”
- “the vulgar tongue of the masses”
- “the technical and vulgar names for an animal species”
Origin
From Latin vernāculus (“domestic, indigenous, of or pertaining to home-born slaves”), from verna (“a native, a home-born slave (one born in his master's house)”).
Phrases
- vernacular architecture
- vernacular dance
- vernacular dialect
- vernacular language
- vernacular name
- vernacular school
- vernacular variety
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